
Maria W G Nijhuis-van der SandenRadboud University Medical Centre (Radboudumc) · Department of IQ Healthcare
Maria W G Nijhuis-van der Sanden
Professor PhD,PPT
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February 2009 - present
February 2009 - present
February 2009 - present
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Publications (450)
There is insufficient evidence to support use of occupational therapy interventions for patients with Parkinson's disease. We aimed to assess the efficacy of occupational therapy in improving daily activities of patients with Parkinson's disease.
We did a multicentre, assessor-masked, randomised controlled clinical trial in ten hospitals in nine Du...
Aim
To evaluate the feasibility of a randomized controlled trial including process and potential impact of occupational therapy in Parkinson’s disease.
Design
Process and outcome were quantitatively and qualitatively evaluated in an exploratory multicentre, two-armed randomized controlled trial at three months.
Participants
Forty-three community-...
This is the first meta-analysis focusing on elderly patients with mobility problems, physical disability and/or multi-morbidity. The aim of this study is to assess the effect of physical exercise therapy on mobility, physical functioning, physical activity and quality of life. A broad systematic literature search was performed in the databases PubM...
Children with type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM1) show endothelial dysfunction and mild artery wall thickening compared to their age-matched healthy peers. In this study, we examined the effect of 18-week exercise training on physical fitness and vascular function and structure in children with DM1. We examined physical fitness, brachial artery endothel...
To investigate the individual effectiveness of motivational interviewing, tailor-made interventions, social context-related interventions, shared decision making, and monitoring & feedback versus active- and passive control groups on physical activity level among older adults at short-, middle-, and long term. Secondary aim is to compare the effect...
Objective
The aims of this study were to evaluate the adoption of and fidelity to the Coach2Move approach; identify differences between physical therapists with a specialization in geriatrics and physical therapists without a specialization; explore if level of adoption and specialization explain variances in effectiveness; and explore group differ...
Introduction
People with dementia and their carers experience social stigma and often refrain from social participation. Significant improvement might be achieved by creating Dementia Friendly communities (DFCs) for which dementia friendly initiatives (DFIs) are needed. DFIs are developed by a variation of stakeholders. However, people with dementi...
Purpose:
Walking adaptability is essential for children to participate in daily life. We studied whether the Walking Adaptability Ladder test for Kids (WAL-K) is reliable and valid for assessing walking adaptability in 6-12 year old ambulatory children with Cerebral Palsy (CP).
Materials and methods:
Thirty-six children with CP (26 GMFCS-level I...
Background
The Observable Movement Quality scale for patients with low back pain (OMQ-LBP) is a newly developed measurement instrument for use in primary care settings of physical and exercise therapists to assess movement quality (MQ) of patients with low back pain (LBP).
Objective
This study aims to determine validity, reliability and feasibilit...
Background:
Currently, paediatric health care aims to use a child-centred tailor-made approach. In order to design tailored occupational therapy, the implementation of personalised occupation-based measurements that guide and evaluate goal setting and are responsive to change is necessary.
Purpose:
Primarily, this study explored the potential of...
Objective:
To investigate the feasibility and usability of an online spasticity monitoring tool amongst people with hereditary spastic paraplegia or chronic stroke receiving botulinum toxin treatment, and their healthcare providers.
Methods:
Mixed methods cohort study, measuring recruitment success and adherence to the monitoring in 3 rehabilita...
Background:
The concept of 'complexity' is widely used by healthcare professionals in patient care. However, it is not completely understood. The inappropriate use and incorrect understanding of complexity lead to ambiguity for hospital-based physiotherapists in dealing with complex patients and work situations.
Objectives:
To develop an underst...
Objectives
Manual therapy in infants is embedded in Dutch healthcare despite inconsistent evidence and ongoing debate about its safety and merits. This study examines decision-making in manual therapy in infants and explores parents’ and healthcare professionals’ perspectives on this treatment approach.
Methods
This mixed-methods study consisted o...
Background
A randomised trial of European Fans in Training (EuroFIT), a 12-week healthy lifestyle program delivered in 15 professional football clubs in the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, and the United Kingdom, successfully increased physical activity and improved diet but did not reduce sedentary time. To guide future implementation, this paper i...
Introduction
Early evaluation of writing readiness is essential to predict and prevent handwriting difficulties and its negative influences on school occupations. An occupation-based measurement for kindergarten children has been previously developed: Writing Readiness Inventory Tool In Context (WRITIC). In addition, to assess fine motor coordinati...
Background:
Dementia-friendly communities (DFCs) are seen as key to the inclusion and participation of people with dementia and carers. Dementia-friendly initiatives (DFIs) are important building blocks for the growth of DFCs. The collaboration between different stakeholders is a central aspect in developing and sustaining DFIs.
Aim:
This study...
Background
Dementia friendly communities (DFCs) are seen as key to participation of people with dementia and carers. Dementia-friendly initiatives (DFI) are important building blocks for the growth of DFCs. Therefore, it is essential to understand how DFIs are developed and sustained to secure the growth of DFCs. This study identifies contextual fa...
This paper investigated facilitators and barriers to implementing the European Football Fans in Training program (EuroFIT) in professional sports clubs in England, the Netherlands, Norway, and Portugal. We analyzed qualitative data collected at clubs that delivered EuroFIT, based on semi-structured interviews with coordinating staff (n = 15), coach...
Aim:
To explore the effect of an Early Intensive-Upper Limb intervention (EI-UL) compared to EI-UL with integrated Multisensory Stimulation And Priming (MuSSAP) training on improving manual ability in infants with a unilateral brain lesion.
Method:
A pilot randomised clinical trial with pre- and postintervention and follow-up measurements (T0, T...
Coach2Move is a person-centered physical therapy approach to promote physical activity among community-dwelling older adults, which consists of motivational interviewing and other motivational strategies. Coach2Move has been implemented in the Netherlands with 52 physical therapists and 294 patients in 16 practices. Implementation has led to better...
Background:
Communication difficulties are common in people with dementia, and often present from an early stage. However, direct treatment options for people with dementia that positively influence their daily communication are scarce.
Aims:
To evaluate the potential impact and feasibility of a personalized logopaedic intervention.
Methods & p...
Objective
The purpose of this study was to assess whether the superior cost-effectiveness of a personalized physical therapy approach (Coach2Move)—which was demonstrated in a previous trial when compared to usual care physical therapy (UCP)—can be replicated in daily clinical practice.
Methods
A multicenter cluster-randomized stepped wedge trial w...
Introduction:
Uncovering the perspective of children with multiple disabilities is important in health care to enable person-centred health care. For occupational therapists, uncovering the child perspective on meaningful activities is necessary to set appropriate goals for treatment. It is not always evident that children with multiple disabiliti...
Purpose:
To assess the experience and perceived added value of an e-Health application during the physical therapy treatment of patients with temporomandibular disorders (TMD).
Materials and methods:
A mixed-methods study including semi-structured interviews was performed with orofacial physical therapists (OPTs) and with TMD patients regarding...
Aim
To estimate the comparability and discriminability of outcome-based quality indicators by performing a practice test in Dutch physical therapy primary care, and to select a core set of outcome-based quality indicators that are well-accepted by physical therapists based on their perceived added value as a quality improvement tool.
Methods
First...
Background
Coach2Move is a person-centered physical therapy intervention that has demonstrated success in changing physical activity behaviors among older adults in the Netherlands. In this manuscript, we describe how we developed an implementation plan for Coach2move in a U.S. population and healthcare system using Implementation Mapping.
Methods...
Background
Although early home-based upper limb training programs are promising, in-depth understanding of parents’ experiences with these programs is still limited. We developed an early home-based upper limb training program for infants and toddlers (8–36 months) with or at risk of unilateral cerebral palsy using video coaching for parents. The a...
Purpose:
To investigate the reliability and validity of the Perceive, Recall, Plan and Perform System of Task Analysis (PRPP-Assessment) by parent-provided videos of children with mitochondrial disorders.
Methods:
Videos of 13 children performing 3-7 activities each were the subject of study, resulting in 65 activities. These were scored using t...
Aims:
Performing the Perceive, Recall, Plan and Perform (PRPP)-Assessment, using video material of everyday life, seems sensible to lower the patient burden, enhance ecological validity, and provide care at a distance. However, receipt of adequate video material is not self-evident and assessing videos can be challenging. Therefore, this study aim...
Background: As the aging process of older adults advances, contact between older adults and healthcare professionals intensifies for adopting and maintaining physical activity. Motivational strategies can increase the effectiveness of physical activity interventions on the short- and longer duration.
Objective: To investigate the individual effecti...
Background
Dementia friendly communities (DFCs) are seen as key to participation of people with dementia and carers. Dementia-friendly initiatives (DFI) are important building blocks for the growth of DFCs. Therefore, it is essential to understand how DFIs are developed and sustained to secure the growth of DFCs. This study identifies contextual fa...
Background
Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD-C) have motor coordination deficits which lead to difficulties in sports and play activities that require adaptations of the walking pattern. Sports and play often involve performing dual tasks, which affects performance in DCD-C more than in typically developing children (TD-C). So...
Background and Objectives
Tools to measure self-perceived communication between persons with early-stage dementia and their caregivers are lacking. Therefore, we developed a questionnaire for Experienced Communication in Dementia (ECD) with a patient version (ECD-P) and a caregiver version (ECD-C), that contains items on (1) caregiver competence, (...
Background
The distal radius fracture (DRF) is a common fracture, with the majority of these fractures being stable. Of all diagnosed fractures, 17% is a DRF, of which a large part is extra-articular and one-third is non-displaced. There is a large variation in treatment advisements for non-reduced DRF. Four to 5 weeks of immobilization is often th...
Objectives
To describe and explain the outcomes of community dementia friendly initiatives (DFIs) for people with dementia and their caregivers to inform the development and tailoring of DFIs
Methods
Literature searches on DFIs were performed through two systematic online database searches of PubMed, Embase, ASSIA, CINAHL and Google scholar. Paper...
This study mapped existing health-promotion provisions targeting adults in professional football clubs across England, the Netherlands, Norway, and Portugal, and explored motives behind the clubs’ adoption of the European Fans in Training (EuroFIT) programme. We surveyed top-tier football clubs in the four countries and interviewed representatives...
Background
Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) can create a temporary or permanent disability that reduce a person’s ability to work. Physiotherapists (PTs), occupational therapists (OTs) and exercise therapists (ETs) are often involved in the early management of MSDs. There is a need for additional insights into therapists’ experiences, barriers and...
Objective
To research the difference in shoulder morbidity and health-related quality of life between patients with cT1-2N0 oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma that undergo either elective neck dissection (END) or a sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) based approach of the neck.
Materials and methods
A longitudinal study with measurements before sur...
Background
Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) have motor coordination deficits leading to difficulties in sports and play that require adaptations of the walking pattern. Children with DCD indeed demonstrate poorer walking adaptability (WA) compared to typically developing children, but it remains elusive whether WA can be impr...
Introduction
Children and adolescents with Cerebral Palsy (CP) show abnormalities in muscle tone, and difficulties in motor coordination and postural stability1. These difficulties lead to limitations in daily activities, such as sports, leisure and school activities2. Children/adolescents with CP have an increased risk of falling3, which points at...
Background
Distal radius fracture is a common fracture of which the incidence appears to be increasing worldwide. This pilot study investigated whether 1 week of plaster cast is feasible for nonreduced (stable fractures including nondisplaced and displaced fractures) distal radius fractures.
Methods
The study was a multicenter randomized clinical...
Migraine, tension-type headache (TTH) and headaches attributed to temporomandibular disorders (TMD) are prevalent in patients with TMD-pain. The objective was to describe the course of headache complaints as compared to the course of TMD complaints in TMD-pain patients with headache during usual care multidisciplinary treatment for TMD. This was a...
Objective
To obtain insight into experiences of patients with a neuromuscular disease and chronic fatigue and their healthcare professionals regarding content and delivery of a multidisciplinary outpatient self-management group programme to improve social participation. This will inform future implementation.
Design
A mixed method study alongside...
Objective
Systemic sclerosis is a complex connective tissue disease affecting mental and physical health. Fatigue, hand function loss, and Raynaud's phenomenon are the most prevalent disease-specific symptoms of systemic sclerosis. This study aimed to develop consensus and evidence-based recommendations for non-pharmacological treatment of these sy...
The objective is to describe the spectrum of the health professional (HP) treatment approach for systemic sclerosis (SSc) from the perspective of Dutch HPs, including alignment of treatment goals set by HPs with self-reported referral reasons, coverage of patient-reported unmet care needs, and quality of communication between HPs and rheumatologist...
Communication problems with their caregivers are common in people with dementia. Although interventions for improvement of communication are being developed, a tool to measure how participants experience their communication is lacking. The objective of this article is to describe the development of a questionnaire that measures the “experienced com...
Background
A national clinical registry was established in the Netherlands containing data directly sampled from electronic health record systems of physical therapists (PTs). This registry aims to evaluate the potential of patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) to develop quality indicators (QIs) in physical therapy care.
Purpose
To test to wh...
Purpose
Complementary interventions for persons with severe mental illness (SMI) focus on both personal recovery and illness self-management. This paper aimed to identify the patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) associated with the most relevant and meaningful change in persons with SMI who attended the Illness Management and Recovery Programm...
Objective:
To (i) classify patients who are recovering from total knee arthroplasty (TKA) based on walking speed during an early physiotherapy program, and (ii) assess whether walking speed trajectory predicts performance on the Timed Up and Go test (TUG).
Design:
Cohort study.
Methods:
We included 218 patients from a 10-day physiotherapy prog...
Introduction:
People with haemophilia suffer from haemophilic joint disease that may result in physical inactivity and overweight. Shared medical appointments (SMAs) might help limit the consequences of haemophilic arthropathy. SMAs are group meetings supervised by one or more healthcare professionals that can be utilized to improve lifestyle.
Ai...
Purpose
Family-centered care has been implemented in the ICU to meet relatives' needs concerning information, support, participation and shared decision making. This study explores the needs, beliefs, feelings and behaviors of relatives of patients admitted to the ICU regarding participation during physical activity.
Methods
Longitudinal qualitati...
Objective:
The purpose of this study was to define and select a core set of outcome-based quality indicators, accepted by stakeholders on usability and perceived added value as a quality improvement tool, and to formulate recommendations for the next implementation step.
Methods:
In phase 1, we defined 15 potential quality indicators for patient...
Objective
To gain insight into the level of unmet needs and limitations in physical health experienced by survivors of head and neck cancer, and to evaluate whether unmet needs in physical health and limitations in physical performance are associated.
Materials and methods
In this cross‐sectional study, unmet needs were measured with Supportive Ca...
The purposes of this prospective cohort study were 1) to assess if second anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury rate two years after ACL reconstruction (ACLR) in those who returned to pivoting sport was associated with meeting (a) quantitative return to sport (RTS) criteria, (b) qualitative RTS criteria, and (c) combined quantitative and qualitat...
Question
What are the views of patients, close relatives and healthcare professionals on physical activity behaviour in hospital care?
Methods
A meta-ethnographic synthesis of qualitative studies was conducted with a lines-of-argument analysis. The methodological quality of included studies was evaluated using the Critical Appraisal Skills Program...
Background
Recovery trajectories differ between individual patients and it is hypothesizes that they can be used to predict if an individual patient is likely to recover earlier or later. Primary aim of this study was to determine if it is possible to identify recovery trajectories for physical functioning and pain during the first six weeks in pat...
Objective:
The purpose of this study was to explore differences in sedentary behavior, length of hospital stay, and discharge destination of patients before and after the Ban Bedcentricity implementation at ward-level.
Methods:
The Ban Bedcentricity innovation and implementation procedure were implemented at the cardiothoracic surgery, cardiolog...
Background:
Alignment adequate to offer nonoperative treatment after reduction of a distal radial fracture is a matter of opinion. This study addressed factors associated with interobserver reliability of satisfaction with alignment after the reduction of a distal radial fracture.
Methods:
A survey sent to members of the Science of Variation Gro...
Background. To gain insight into the current state-of-the-art of shared decision making (SDM) during decisions related to pre and postoperative care process regarding primary total knee replacement (TKR). Methods. A scoping review was performed to synthesize existing scientific research regarding (1) decisional needs and preferences of patients pre...
Background
After discharge, stroke survivors and their informal caregivers need support from their social networks to resume their most valued activities. Rehabilitation professionals could help them establish a strong support system.
Objective
Explore how older stroke survivors and their primary informal caregivers expect to resume their valued a...
Background:
Hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP) is a group of inherited disorders characterized by progressive spastic paresis of the lower limbs. Treatment is often focused on reducing spasticity and its physical consequences. To better address individual patients' needs, we investigated a broad range of experienced complaints, activity limitatio...